On Fri, Jun 17, 2011 at 02:07:42PM -0400, Joel C. Salomon wrote:
> On 06/17/2011 11:37 AM, tlaro...@polynum.com wrote:
>[...]
> > but no hieroglyphes or Linear B, so it's not complete ;)
>
> The fonts may be lacking, but Hieroglyphs & Linear B *are* in Unicode;
> see <alanwood.net/unicode/egyptian-hieroglyphs.html> and
> <alanwood.net/unicode/linear_b_syllabary.html>.
I stand corrected (and this is why I think METAFONT is great: the
ability to create "easily" what would be too expensive due to small
audience). I do think that if Hilbert had had METAFONT to give to one of
his students at Göttingen, he would not have plagued mathematics with
gothic...
>[...]
>
> A C version of the PDF library XeTeX uses to translate its "extended"
> XDVI format to PDF would be interesting. C++, though.... No, I'll not
> reopen that can of worms today.
I'm definitively not a C++ fan, so it's a pure threat.
For now (I mean kerTeX 1.0) I will go the farthest I can go with 8bit
TeX and simplicity, and try to gather enough knowledge around fonts so
that I can decide after where to invest my limited amount of time.
Not in the thread about mouse vs keyboard, I guess.
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